Next week will see the end of the Peking-Paris automobile race, organized by "Lo Matin." Prince ' Borghese, whose 40-lip. car has given him a great advantage over the other competitors, reached St Petersburg on Thursday, and expects to arrive in Berlin on Monday. As he is about " thousand miles or so ahead of the two small 10-lip. de Dion and Spyker cars, not hurrying.
The de Dion automobiles crossed the frontier between Europe and Asi Wednesday. A dispatch to Lo Mat says that the four Frenchmen with them got out and stood round the pyramid marking the—boundary, Our says the writer of the ent bark to the day when on Jane 10, to our many adventures and hardships on the and more particularly to our heroic friend Pons, whom we lost in the desert. How sorry we felt that he was not with us to take his share of the bottle of champagne which we had cherished until this moment to celebrate our entrance into Europe."
Pons, who has just returned to Paris does not seem to view the situation in quite the same light. He says he was obliged to give up the race because his travelling companions, disregarding the ordinary principles of humanity and quite forgetting their promise that all should keep together in the desert, deliberately left him behind and made no attempt to find him. He followed them as best he could until his supply of petrol gare out; and having scarcely any food, or water, he was compelled to abandon his motor tricycle and make the best of his way to Kalgan, 180 miles distant, on foot, with occasional lifts on camel back, which made him very ill. Pons proposes to be prose at the triumphant arrival of the de cars in Paris, and tell the drivers opinion of them.
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